Published: August 25th, 2012 at 3:09 pm ET
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August 22: 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Update
Updated measurements of the sinkhole site have not been available because the direct site is remains prohibited. Civil Air Patrol has been contracted to flyover and provide aerial photographs that can be compared to the photographs they supplied on August 10, 2012. As soon as we have those, we will be able to provide the public with updated measurements and side by side comparisons.
August 23: 9:33 a.m. State Police Helicopter, fuel leak
Please be advised that emergency responders are here at the Command Post in Bayou Corne because the LA State Police helicopter dispatched here for sinkhole flyovers has experienced a fuel leak.
August 25: 8:40 a.m. Morning Briefing
The EPA infrared flight is expected to occur between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. today. The plane to be used has a large twin engine and is expected to be extremely loud since they are flying only 300 ft. in the air. Do not be alarmed. Results of that flight will be posted as soon as they are made available.
August 25: 1:00 p.m. EPA Plane Update « Assumption Parish Police Jury
We are still awaiting the arrival of the EPA plane. They were landing in Gonzales to re-fuel and then heading to the Grand Bayou/Bayou Corne area. Pictures will be posted immediately upon their arrival.
Last Size Update (August 16): 11:00 a.m. Sinkhole Grows in Diameter
During cleanup activities this morning, an additional 50’ feet of property on the SW side of the site fell into the sinkhole
Published: August 25th, 2012 at 3:09 pm ET
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An additional 50 feet all at once? Wow, what is going on under there? I don't think I'd be getting any closer than several hundred feet away. When they say "clean up", I wonder what they mean.
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at one stage the rate was 20 feet per day. with the drilling rig at 900 feet away, i figured it was 6 weeks till the rig gets over run.
down to five weeks now.
"The 1-mile-by-3-mile dome is a large salt deposit pushed up from an ancient sea bed under the earth.
The cavern was used in solution mining for nearly three decades to produce brine for industry. In the process, the cavern was hollowed out of the salt dome with water into the shape of a narrow, upside-down vase 3,400 feet underground."
and they let people build suburbs above it. sheesh.
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I didn't realize it is or was going at an average of 20 feet per day. I don't know how in the world they think they are going to stop this. And then there is all that nasty stuff stored in there…
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it just seemed to be the rate, my assumption that it's daily.
from an earlier enenews report …
http://enenews.com/louisiana-sinkhole-grows-another-20-feet-cleanup-activities-remain-suspended-new-footage-inside-ground-level-map-video
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I've been keeping up on the story, just seems like 50 feet at once is a lot. Makes me wonder if things are ramping up or something.
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